University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. With 6,700 staff caring for half a million patients a year and a £545 million state of the art new “super hospital” due to open in 2010, there’s never been a more exciting time to join this Trust.
The Pharmacy Department at UHBFT is one of the largest and most progressive in the country. Within the new hospital we envisage our pharmacy team fully integrated into clinical teams at ward level. Alongside this we will be looking to innovative solutions for medicines supply and are actively engaging with commercial partners to ensure that our patients get the very best from their medicines and the pharmacy service.
Our state of the art £5.5m Manufacturing Unit is a designated lead unit for the NHS in England as set out by the Department of Health. As such we are committed to the national strategy to modernise manufacturing within the NHS, including working with commercial partners to ensure that patients have access to essential high quality medicines. Plans are underway to expand the service further to include:
• dose banded chemotherapy
• parenteral nutrition
• high risk injections (including epidurals) in response to NPSA guidance
• homecare products including antibiotics
Technical services also incorporate radiopharmacy and our licensed chemotherapy lab based on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital site. Plans are underway to build an additional and specific gene therapy pharmacy within the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility; this alongside the recent announcement of the new Birmingham Clinical Research Academy will place UHB at the forefront of clinical research and patient care.
Following a successful recruitment campaign we have recently appointed a new Associate Director - Technical Services and a new Director of Regional Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance for the West Midlands. This is therefore an exciting time for the right applicants to join the team.
Lead Pharmacist - Gene and Monoclonal Therapy
Band 8a £37,106 - £44,527 plus or minus EDC
Reference: 304-8G0632
This is a unique opportunity to be part of cutting edge developments in gene and monoclonal therapy. We are looking for an exceptional and highly motivated pharmacist to lead on technical and clinical aspects of gene and monoclonal therapy within the Trust. Based within technical services you will play a key role in building and developing strong working links between our clinical teams including the Wellcome Clinical Research Facility and technical services.
The ideal candidate will have experience in pharmacy technical services including quality assurance and preparative services. You will liaise closely with our Clinical Trials Pharmacists and contribute to widening the Trusts research and development portfolio. Experience of clinical trial working including knowledge of Good Clinical Practice would be an advantage. Initially the role will also include experience of working as part of the broader technical pharmacy team however it is anticipated that this will diminish as the planned Gene Therapy Pharmacy gets underway in 2009.
For further information or informal discussion about either role, please contact John Farrell - Director of Pharmacy on 0121 627 2329 or email john.farrell@uhb.nhs.uk
To apply for either role, please visit the NHS Jobs website www.jobs.nhs.uk and enter the relevant reference in the keyword/
search field.
Closing date: 1 December 2008.
Interview date: week commencing 15 December 2008.
